Language complexity, narratives and theory of mind of Romani speaking children
Authors:
- Hristo Kyuchukov,
- Jill de Villiers
Abstract
The paper presents research findings with 56 Roma children from Macedonia and Serbia between the ages of 3-6 years. The children’s knowledge of Romani as their mother tongue was assessed with a specially designed test. The test measures the children’s comprehension and production of different types of grammatical knowledge such as wh–questions, wh-complements, passive verbs, possessives, tense, aspect, the ability of the children to learn new nouns and new adjectives, and repetition of sentences. In addition, two pictured narratives about Theory of Mind were given to the children. The hypothesis of the authors was that knowledge of the complex grammatical categories by children will help them to understand better the Theory of Mind stories. The results show that Roma children by the age of 5 know most of the grammatical categories in their mother tongue and most of them understand Theory of Mind.
- Record ID
- USLe21da2ef7ec7421baaad1477f41f1b69
- Author
- Journal series
- East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, ISSN 2312-3265, e-ISSN 2313-2116
- Issue year
- 2018
- Vol
- 5
- No
- 2
- Pages
- 16-31
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.80
- Keywords in English
- Romani, Theory of Mind, language assessment, language complexity
- DOI
- DOI:10.5281/zenodo.2583166 Opening in a new tab
- Handle.net URL
- hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/8402 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- File
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- File: 1
- Language complexity, narratives and theory of mind of Romani speaking children, File Kyuchukov_Language_complexity_narratives_and_theory_of_mind.pdf / 556 KB
- Kyuchukov_Language_complexity_narratives_and_theory_of_mind.pdf
- publication date: 06-02-2024
- Language complexity, narratives and theory of mind of Romani speaking children, File Kyuchukov_Language_complexity_narratives_and_theory_of_mind.pdf / 556 KB
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- Score (nominal)
- 5
- Score source
- BIBLIOGRAFIA DOROBKU PRACOWNIKÓW UŚ
- Publication indicators
- = 4
- Citation count
- 4
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://opus.us.edu.pl/info/article/USLe21da2ef7ec7421baaad1477f41f1b69/
- URN
urn:uni-kat-prod:USLe21da2ef7ec7421baaad1477f41f1b69
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